Using
an image from either global surveillance satellites or internal visualizations
of the physical body, create a visual statement about a specific geographic or
physical area that has personal significance to you.

Use scale- take
two different photographs (for instance one of a satellite image and one of you
or your house or residence). Scale them unusually so that new meanings emerge
which challenge our perception of the accepted world. Color -
selectively recolor specific aspects of this image for emphasis.

Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story:
Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

(Due week 4, Feb. 8)

(awareness of one’s
“natural” environment)

After studying various
types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement, create a short
photographic essay about a real person, event, or occurrence. Without using any
special visual effects (except color correction, red eye reduction or
defocusing), use cropping, experimental composition, and other techniques of
inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least 24 ways of looking at the same
"real" visual information. Show all 24 images and pick 5 of the
best images to illustrate your story. Print these 5 images on the high end
Epson 10,000 printer. (Text can be used as captions if desired.

Working
collaboratively in groups of 3, tell a story or narrative through the use of various
photographic and/or graphic elements, object scans, textures, etc. which work
together to give visual form to your ideas. Text can be used, either
incorporated as part of the image or as captions. Print your team's work on the
large format Epson 10,000 printer minimum size 24 x 40 inches or create a
virtual panorama: either create a quicktime
VR panorama, a polar
panorama, a cyclorama,
or encompassing diorama

Photomontage: the technique of combining in a single
composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different
photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the
elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its
separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition.

Collage: a technique of composing a work of art by
pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one
another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and
fragments of an envelope.

Assemblage:

a sculptural technique of organizing or composing
into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded
objects.

We have been
invited to create an international project in conjunction with a class of
students at the University of Zhaoqing in China.

Create an original
personal story based on your life’s experiences, events, or pathways. You may
wish to create an interactive digital map of your personal history. Create a
flash animation of 1 to 2 minutes in length, suitable for posting to the web.
Work with movement, timing, juxtaposition, sound, composition, color, etc. to
tell your "story".

The students in China will
create flash animations of their stories as well. Together we will create an
online gallery of all the stories.

Consider
what it is you wish to say, storyboard it, develop a style, and go forth.

Amazing Flash Websites
from Jeremy:

http://www.2advanced.com/
- site for a design firm. Very rich content- kind of intense, definitely at the
far end of the Flashiness Scale if you know what I mean.

http://www.tokyoplastic.com/
- I hardly know what it is, but it's cool. Students are encouraged to check out
the animation "drum machine". (The 3D animation in tokyoplastic is generated
through an application known as Swift3D; though cool, 3D is really the least
practical animation format in Flash.)

This is a work about
time and memory. The memory recovered by the photos and the memory of the
computer that allows interaction with the digital image on the web site. Cache
memory shows that the past, the present and the future cam be by one click of
your fingers, collapsed by the interface of new media.

The artist
statement and digital ideograph begin the development of your individual ideas
and starts the trajectory towards the final project. It utilizes the
techniques, theory and history learned in class and in individual research.

It
is, in essence, a digital ideograph of your art delivery system in action,
virtually. Create a web page that illuminates your idea and its location in
terms of what you want to reconstruct in it.

Photograph the exact location and then digitally create your ideas within it.
You are required to articulate your final project in an artist statement of
from one to two paragraphs whereby your concept, methodology and at least 5
bibliographic references/influences are stated.

Final Project pre-REVIEWS

:

April 19

ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE: April
23

On-site
Critiques

The actual project manifested as an original
(billboard, large poster series, drive by car art, aerial art, photo
projection, data projection, etc.) art system device that carries your message
to those who may not have the opportunity to see your work inside a normal
gallery environment.Your work must be realized
physically and you must photograph the work in the site